O’Reilly issues media mission statement

What Bernie and I are trying to get across with this media segment every week is that many in the media — powerful people — don’t want to tell the truth to the people because it’s more important to them to get their ideology in play than to let the folks know what the truth is, and that’s a total change from what the American media was 30-40 years ago.”

Erik Wemple, The Washington Post's media critic, focuses on the cable-news industry. Before joining The Post, he ran a short-lived and much publicized local online news operation, and for eight years served as editor of Washington City Paper.